Last night at City Temple we watched a powerful video called A Cry from Iran. Being a church of the nations and a church to the nations, we have a number of ethnic fellowship groups-one of those is our Persian fellowship, many Farsi speakers who are originally from Iran. We also have a group that prays for the persecuted church, and these groups came together at our midweek meeting to watch the video. It tells the powerful story of Pastor Haik Hovsepian, who was martyred for his faith in 1994. It really is an astonishingly emotional and challenging story, showing the Iranian church flourishing despite much persecution. It reminded me of the famous quote by Tertullian- The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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